Story: 10/10 :
A really good story in the game with several endings, among them, one of the endings has been selected for the anime.. I really liked the whole setting of the High School and everything.
Art: 10/10 :
All characters are really well developed and very distinct and stylish and the girls appear cute as well.
Sound: 9/10:
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Sound in general is really good throughout the anime, but my favorite is "Kioku no Umi" which comes in really touching situations that it would melt your heart..
Character: 9/10:
Characters are quite well developed, and this being a pure romantic anime, focuses the whole episode on character development compared to other action-romance series where you would have to devote half the screen time for fights with monsters/enemies. Whether good or evil, I liked almost all the characters in the series.
Enjoyment: 9/10:
I can't really say enjoyment, but it was rooting and I had to finish it off all at once because it was really thrilling till the last episode as you would never guess whom he might end up with...
Overall: 9/10:
Overall I would give it 9/10 because there could have been a positive ending somehow, thought I can't figure any such ending which would have been happy for everyone...still a 9/10.
***SPOILER*** DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED THE SERIES
Episode by episode Review:
Episode 1:
Really nice way to start an anime with such a cute girl like Kotonoha. But the ending of the episode was awesome with that shocking kiss from Sekai!
Episode 2:
Poor Sekai is trying TOO hard to pretend…I felt so bad for her…
Episode 3:
It was nice to see Kokoro chan and all but I can’t forgive Makoto for what he said to Sekai at the end of the episode…that “It was tiring to be with Kotonoha” just coz she was uncomfortable in doing ecchi things with him doesn’t mean that he will start getting bored of SUCH a cute and loveable girl. He should have given her ample time to be comfortable…after all he loved her and she loved him back…whats tiring about it????? At this stage he has ZERO feelings for Poor Sekai.
Episode 4:
Sekai is unable to hold back her feelings for him while helping him(or so she said)…but its HIS fault that he decided to betray Poor Kotonoha even when the one he loved was Kotonoha and towards Sekai, he only started having feelings of lust since she was ready to let him do anything! That’s not love.
Episode 5:
I feel so bad for Sekai when Makoto is with Kotonoha at the pool. But I felt kinda happy when he later confesses to Sekai and then goes up to meet her and have sex(which is what he always wanted with her)…of course I felt sooo bad for Poor Kotonoha who was betrayed JUST coz she was uncomfortable with these things…but she was really trying hard to do her best in overcoming these feelings..but he just couldn’t wait!
Episode 6:
I felt soo happy for Sekai when they both confessed their feelings at the rooftop. At the same time I felt soooo heartbroken for Kotonoha that she was betrayed and she had to witness such a cruel scene…when she had done NOTHING wrong in her relation so far…Poor girl..
Episode 7:
I hated it sooo much the way Poor Kotonoha is being treated by her cruel classmates…At this point I did dislike Setsuna for being soooo cruel to Poor Kotonoha for Sekai’s sake…it was too much and that jerk and dork Makoto…I wanted to kill him when he didn’t defend Kotonoha when she was being insulted by Nanami…yes u say u don’t love her anymore…but that doesn’t mean u wont defend a Poor and cute girl like Kotonoha…
Poor Poor Kotonoha is treated SOO harshly by the jerk Makoto when she comes to his home..Yes Sekai is inside…but Kotonoha knows it already and he wud have to tell her anyway, so he didn’t have to be sooo rude to her and shut the door on her face! I felt soo bad for her when she saw Sekai’s shoes and left. I felt soo bad for Sekai when she felt soo betrayed when he doesn’t deny when Kotonoha says she is still Makoto’s girlfriend. And when Kotonoha slaps Sekai…I was like not knowing what to feel because I felt really bad for both girls…all coz of one jerk!
Episode 8:
I felt happy for Sekai when she was so broken and he went to visit her for once! I felt soo terribly sad seeing Kotonoha trying to seduce him to get him back…she didn’t have to offer him to touch her breasts…that’s not needed in love…she should have gotten rid of him at that stage itself…for the best seriously!
Setsuna…I never expected her to hold feelings for Makoto as well!
Episode 9:
Makoto is a real jerk! He went to see Kotonoha finally after playing around with Sekai forever…and then with an interruption from Otome(towards whom he has ZERO feelings), he forgets abt seeing Kotonoha completely!!! Poor Kotonoha was waiting for him forever as she was challenged by her classmates abt him…
Makoto is a jerk again! He was seduced so easily by Otome! Of course she is a bitch that she wants to get fucked even when he has 2 girlfriends already, but he doesn’t mind!!! Imo, Otome should have confessed to him in middle school itself! So Kotonoha and Sekai are the only deserving girlfriends…and they both are really the best ones anyone can find…still he betrays both!
Episode 10:
Oh dear dear Kotonoha! What have u done with Taisuke….in ur broken state…now u have betrayed Makoto too….so in a way, this makes u two even…Poor Sekai never betrays Makoto! I felt soo sad for her when she cried watching Makoto and Sekai dance and kiss in the bonfire…..I was shocked when Setsuna kisses Makoto in front of Kotonoha and that jerk doesn’t say a word to Setsuna or Poor broken defeated Kotonoha!!!(he has ZERO feelings for Setsuna)…how can he let Kotonoha cry like that????? I really felt like going and hugging her tightly…she did NOTHING wrong…ever!
Poor Setsuna should have confessed at the beginning itself and never let Sekai sit next to Makoto! I felt so sad for her that she sacrificed her love for her best friend and also is ready to have sex with him if he promises to take care of Sekai! Take a bow Setsuna….and shame on you Makoto for even forcing yourself on Setsuna!!!
I felt sorry for Sekai when she finds out that the Makoto whom she trusts so much had sex with Otome so easily…..and then when Kotonoha says that Setsuna loves Makoto too….she realizes that Setsuna loved him all the time. The reason why I don’t hate Sekai for doing this unlike other girls is that she really had genuine feelings for him, so anything is not wrong for the sake of love….unlike other girls who only wanted to have sex….with Makoto.
Episode 11:
I felt sooo sad for Sekai who is in a shock locked up in her room by the betrayal of Makoto…and also Setsuna gone…she has no one left to take care of her now…Also, I felt sooo sad for Kotonoha who has gone insane by now and she still refuses to believe that Makoto dumped her, she keeps calling him and that jerk actually blocked her!!
I was completely shocked when Hikari of all girls…she started having sex with Makoto! OMG! She was a supporter of Sekai all along…and even informed her when she saw Makoto with Kotonoha in the beginning. How could she betray Sekai so unfaithfully? Selfish. And that jerk Makoto, no need to say anything about him as according to him, finding new girls for sex matters more than to think how Sekai and Kotonoha might be feeling at the moment…I have got only one thing to say to Otome…she has NO rights to dump Makoto coz she seduced him knowing all along that he has 2 girlfriends!!
Wow! Otome’s friends not only betray her but they know he has so many girlfriends and they want a group sex with him! Wow and he just cannot deny….while Sekai and Kotonoha are suffering in so much pain! And the girls who ignore him after Sekai announces that she is pregnant….they are all selfish bitches….they know that they cheated on Sekai and Kotonoha all along….so what now if Sekai is pregnant?
When Makoto meets Kotonoha at the end….he had to die…for making her suffer in such a state…somehow her eyes become alive again but he killed her heart LONG back. All she knows now is to do anything so that he will still let her call him her boyfriend…that’s all…coz he threw away all feelings for her long back. So he did not deserve to be back with her….
Episode 12:
What an episode! Long awaited….I hated it when Makoto was with Kotonoha….and also Sekai feels so betrayed when she finds out that he Is with her…. while she was so hopefully waiting for him at his house cooking dinner and all. At this stage, if he can go back to Kotonoha then WHY not Sekai? Poor girl is ignored just because she got pregnant?? He never waited till Kotonoha was ready for sex. So it’s not Sekai’s fault that she is pregnant and now wants to live a happy life with Makoto. She is not wrong at all! I HATED him when he says “Kotonoha would never say something like that” of course she is too soft of a girl to be with someone like you!! Only Sekai can endure your betrayals and still forgive you but you still betrayed Sekai once again when you kissed Kotonoha in train while Sekai saw her….I felt sooo sad for Sekai…Poor Poor girl…
Worst scene…when Sekai comes to Makoto’s home and he kisses Kotonoha right in front of Sekai. I won’t blame Kotonoha as she did nothing wrong. All she wanted was his love which he was faking anyway. But how could he hurt Poor Sekai like that! The best possible thing in this situation could be a Triangle ending like many other series where Sekai and Kotonoha come to a mutual agreement and both stay with him. But this series isn’t that type and it focuses only on 1 on 1 love. So after being betrayed by Makoto, Sekai could only Die or Kill him.
And not too surprisingly, she took the second path and killed him. I didn’t feel sad for him when he died. He didn’t deserve to die still he let things go too far to look back now. He wouldn’t have felt a BIT sad had Sekai killed herself. He would have been relieved. So Sekai’s decision wasn’t too wrong imo. Then Poor Kotonoha….Makoto had finally agreed to stay with her but now he was dead. She had to kill Sekai to get a revenge for all the things Sekai did to her and Makoto. But of course, Sekai had to die in order to put her out of misery. Her life had become worthless…
Finally, Kotonoha kills Sekai and then when she sails on the yacht with Makoto’s head… I felt like this was the right way to end it. Kotonoha NEVER did anything wrong so she should never die. This way, she will be going to prison for a few years and I believe when she comes back, she would have recovered from this state….pathetic state…and hopefully live on. For Sekai, she didn’t have to die either but in her position, she had nothing left in this world anyway and would have had to live on as an empty vessel…Kotonoha isn’t too different either. But of course…none of this would have happened had Setsuna not allowed Sekai to sit next to Makoto. That’s what the anime says…but I believe he would have seduced Setsuna and then through her he would have reached Sekai and also Kotonoha…
But I must say that by providing a bad end, the producers have really dragged in a LOT of fans to play the Game School Days in order to achieve the happy endings including me. The game is 11 GB size so not many people would have played it had the anime had a happy ending….so Hats Off producers!
Apr 22, 2011
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Story: 10/10 :
A really good story in the game with several endings, among them, one of the endings has been selected for the anime.. I really liked the whole setting of the High School and everything. Art: 10/10 : All characters are really well developed and very distinct and stylish and the girls appear cute as well. Sound: 9/10: ... |
